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| Title |
Culture’s building blocks: investigating cultural evolution in a LEGO construction task
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01017 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John J. McGraw, Sebastian Wallot, Panagiotis Mitkidis, Andreas Roepstorff |
| Abstract |
ONE OF THE MOST ESSENTIAL BUT THEORETICALLY VEXING ISSUES REGARDING THE NOTION OF CULTURE IS THAT OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND TRANSMISSION: how a group's accumulated solutions to invariant challenges develop and persevere over time. But at the moment, the notion of applying evolutionary theory to culture remains little more than a suggestive trope. Whereas the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory has provided an encompassing scientific framework for the selection and transmission of biological adaptations, a convincing theory of cultural evolution has yet to emerge. One of the greatest challenges for theorists is identifying the appropriate time scales and units of analysis in order to reduce the intractably large and complex phenomenon of "culture" into its component "building blocks." In this paper, we present a model for scientifically investigating cultural processes by analyzing the ways people develop conventions in a series of LEGO construction tasks. The data revealed a surprising pattern in the selection of building bricks as well as features of car design across consecutive building sessions. Our findings support a novel methodology for studying the development and transmission of culture through the microcosm of interactive LEGO design and assembly. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 31 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 19% |
| Denmark | 5 | 16% |
| United States | 3 | 10% |
| Germany | 3 | 10% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 6% |
| Portugal | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 11 | 35% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 16 | 52% |
| Scientists | 14 | 45% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 3% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 63 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 26% |
| Researcher | 13 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Professor | 6 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 18% |
| Unknown | 6 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 18 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 10 | 15% |
| Linguistics | 6 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 6 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 15 | 22% |
| Unknown | 9 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 October 2015.
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